(China) More forced into prostitution, labor

Source: China Daily

By Wang Zhuoqiong (China Daily)

Forced labor and sexual exploitation have increased as the trend in human trafficking in China has taken a turn for the worst.

That is the assessment of a senior public security official who was talking on the loopholes in the country's labor system and Criminal Law yesterday.

Yin Jianzhong, a senior official of the anti-trafficking office of the Ministry of Public Security, said: "Forced labor and sexual exploitation are the two new outcomes of human trafficking in China and the number of such cases is rising."

The number of forced laborers and the sexually exploited has risen partly because of the loopholes in the legal and labor systems, he added.


Read more: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-07/27/content_5444409.htm

Please forgive us!

Praise Wal-Mart!

If they keep doing everything in their power to prevent girls from being born or kept by thier parents, then eventually they won't have to worry about at least part of this issue.

It is the biggest struggle they have. Human rights and the US should be holding their feet to the fire and using trade to end it, unfortunately, until we break the corporate lobby system on the hill, nothing will change.

Peace.